By Mark Anderson, Sacramento Business Journal The El Dorado Lake Tahoe Film & Media Office is hosting its annual film industry mixer, and this year the featured speaker is a local resident and Hollywood veteran who worked on “The Artist”, the film that won the Best Picture academy award last month. The I Love Film […]
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By Kathryn Reed Before the book drive officially started, the initial goal of 250 books was met. Now organizers want to double or triple that number by the end of the month. With April being National School Library Month, one of the six Leadership Lake Tahoe groups decided to focus on literacy on the South […]
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UC Davis’s Tahoe Environmental Research Center in partnership with Lake Tahoe School and Tahoe Expedition Academy will host the seventh annual Science Expo this month. The Science Expo features interactive experiments and demonstrations for children ages 6 to 12 and their families. The Science Expo is open to the general public on March 14 from […]
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Truckee Elementary is going green. Designated as the flagship school to lead the greening of the Tahoe Truckee Unified School District, the students and staff of Truckee Elementary will be pioneering a path toward an environmentally sustainable future for the entire district. During the next few years, Truckee Elementary will undergo a green transformation: in […]
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Tahoe Production House is having a casting call for a five episode web series to be aired in Lake Tahoe, Carson City, Reno, Sacramento, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. This is a comedic love story. The webisode has been sold to major distributors. It will shot HD and distributed worldwide. The plot: a city couple […]
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The North Lake Tahoe Chamber of Commerce and the Truckee Donner Chamber of Commerce in partnership with the Sierra Human Resources Association are offering “Time Management for Busy People: Getting Things Done in 2012” on March 13 from 9am to noon. Registration begins at 8:30am at Cedar House Sport Hotel, 10918 Brockway Road in Truckee. […]
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Publisher’s note: This is reprinted from the January-February 1989 Lake Tahoe Historical Society Newsletter. From the beginning, John A. Thompson was the stuff of which legends are made. Tall, rangy and taciturn, he had come to America from Norway as a boy. When the mountain passes of the Sierra were closed by snow, both California […]
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Adriana is a special little kitten. She is very friendly and energetic, and wants to be around people and other cats as much as possible. She has very pretty blue-gray fur, and is quite playful. You would never know that Adriana is blind based on the way she gets around and likes to explore. She […]
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El Dorado County this month began the Best Rx Savings Program for all county residents, as well as residents of the Sacramento region. By using the free card, residents will be able to save up to 75 percent off generic medications, with overall average savings more than 40 percent across brand and generic medications combined. […]
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Will Richardson of the Tahoe Institute for Natural Science will speak about Winter Wildlife Survival: Strategies for the Tahoe Basin on March 8. The 7pm event at Emerald Bay Physical Therapy is sponsored by the Tahoe Area Sierra Club. Have you ever wondered what Tahoe’s animals do for the winter? Do Tahoe’s bears really hibernate? […]
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